The best 3rd party controllers I’ve had are the Logitech F310 for PC (any PC controller is technically 3rd party, right?) and some MadCatz thing for the N64… I can’t remember the model number but they were almost identical to the stock 1st party controllers with two distinct differences: they were thicker and they had better joysticks.
For the latter, I loved them because of the stick not the thickness. Back in those days, my siblings and friends all played a lot of WWF and Mario Party and those games took a heavy toll on the springs in the N64 controller. Eventually after a few sessions, the first party sticks were loose as fuck and barely functioned. Those MadCatz pads, however, were sturdy as fuck. You could full-palm the stick all day, every day and it would still snap back to center perfectly.
The best 3rd party controllers I’ve had are the Logitech F310 for PC (any PC controller is technically 3rd party, right?) and some MadCatz thing for the N64… I can’t remember the model number but they were almost identical to the stock 1st party controllers with two distinct differences: they were thicker and they had better joysticks.
For the latter, I loved them because of the stick not the thickness. Back in those days, my siblings and friends all played a lot of WWF and Mario Party and those games took a heavy toll on the springs in the N64 controller. Eventually after a few sessions, the first party sticks were loose as fuck and barely functioned. Those MadCatz pads, however, were sturdy as fuck. You could full-palm the stick all day, every day and it would still snap back to center perfectly.